Principal's Weekly Report
Principal's Update
Dear Families, Students, and Staff,
We’re thrilled to kick off an exciting Week 6 filled with lots of excitement as we announced our Teacher and Employee of the Year! If you see Ms. Campbell or Coach Chris please give them a big congratulations for the work they do!
📊 Interim Grades Now Available
Interim grades have been posted on FOCUS. Families and students are encouraged to log in and review current progress in each class. This is a great opportunity to celebrate successes and identify areas for improvement as we move forward.
🏀 Basketball Games This Week
Our teams are on the road for two away games:
- Tuesday at DeLaura
- Thursday at Hoover
Come out and support our student-athletes as they represent Stone Middle with pride and sportsmanship!
🗣️ Student Voice Committee Launch
We are proud to host our first-ever Student Voice Committee Meeting this Friday! One student from each 4th period class has been nominated to meet with Administration and discuss current events, share ideas, and help shape the future of our school. We’re excited to hear their voices and celebrate their leadership.
Let’s make this week one to remember—full of connection, collaboration, and celebration!
Go Gophers
Lauren Feronti Williams
Principal
Starting the 2025-2026 school year, all K-8 schools are personal electronics free per state statue. Personal electronics include cellphones, headphones, tablets, etc. As Principal of Stone Middle School an electronic free campus is important to me. Cellphone and other electronics may be silenced in backpacks to not distract the learning. Students must secure all electronic devices in backpacks before coming on campus and may use their phones after the dismissal bell. This past summer, I read "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt and would like to share information from this book regarding teen use of electronics.
"-The first generation of Americans who went through puberty with smartphones (and the entire internet) in their hands became more anxious, depressed, self-harming, and suicidal. We now call that the generation Gen Z, in contrast to the millennial generation, which has largely finished puberty when the Great Rewiring began in 2010.
-No other theory has been able to explain why rates of anxiety and depression surged among adolescents in so many countries at the same time and in the same way. Other factors, of course, contribute to poor mental health, but the unprecedented rise between 2010 and 2015 cannot be explained by the global financial crisis, not by any set of events that happened in the United States or in any other particular country.
How exactly does a phone-based childhood interfere with child development and produce or exacerbate mental illness?" (pg 44-45).
Principal: Lauren Feronti Williams
Feronti.Lauren@brevardschools.org
Assistant Principal of Curriculum: Shannon Sejeck
Sejeck.Shannon@brevardschools.org
Assistant Principal of Disciplines: Kelly Borck